his rejection of it (we seek refuge in Allah), or from a deficiency in recognition. May Allah excuse us from that.

[130] For this reason, the Sage [Al-Alim]—His glory is mighty—said: "The most cognizant of you concerning his own soul is the most cognizant of you concerning his Lord; and the most ignorant of you concerning his own soul is the most ignorant of you concerning his Lord."

And Ibn Makzun said in the "Treatise on the Purification of the Soul" [Risalat Tazkiyat al-Nafs]: "And the five outward senses of the head—which are: hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch—just as they provide souls with the world of sensible things, in like manner have the personified loci of the Intellect provided them [with knowledge] during His manifestation to the world of intelligible things. Their sustenance is derived from the inward senses through which the unseen realities are witnessed, and through which possibilities and impossibilities are conceptualized; these are the imaginative [al-mukhayyilah], the cogitative [al-mufakkirah], the recollective [al-mudhakkirah], the retentive [al-hafizah],